Initially, the word “podcast” was directly related to the “iPode”, the music player of Apple – the famous iPod. Now a podcast, or just a custom, is called a broader phenomenon on the Internet. What, in fact, is cast (podcast)? It does not have, first of all, with Indian castes – social layers, although the word in the plural sounds exactly the same, castes, and sometimes there is a misunderstanding. And it is a form of distribution of media files (audio or video).
What is podcast
Combined two words – BroadCasting (wide broadcasting) and iPod, so it turned out to be a podcast. Once podcasts were intended mainly for the owners of the iPodes. What is the difference between cast (podcast) and just audio recording? Most often, podcasts are called something thematic and periodic, a sequence of records like an audio or video blog or television or radio broadcast. This is a kind of Internet broadcasting, but not continuous, as, for example, for “network radio stations” on the site 101, and discrete through separate entries. Podcasts are both paid and free, but free, of course, more. Now, in principle, they would be more competent to call webcas (from Web-a network), but for some reason this word has not received a significant distribution among Internet users. In general, once a week, or a month, or every day (at the choice of the owner), a new audio or video on a certain topic appears on a network resource he has determined. Everything is as with television and radio programs, except that the distribution of podcasts is much cheaper to cost their creator. And almost anyone can publish them – create their own “line” posts about cooking, or about cats, or with reviews of cinema. The topic can be completely arbitrary as soon as your imagination wishes.
What is podcast
The podcast is usually associated with the RSS technology that helps users immediately see when updates appear. Because of this, they tried to introduce the expression “eresses-caste”, but here the impossibility of popularizing the term is immediately visible. You are to be to be to be spoken-Erases is unlikely to want to repeat it often. And RSS technology is popular so that it is used “everywhere and everywhere”, and it makes no sense to link it just with castes.
Actually, the podcast in our time is a type of “post”, that is, entries on the blog, in the community or on the forum. The difference is one: it is not written, but they say, and has the appearance of a video file or audio recordings. The frequency for caste (podcast) is already not even required at all, and it is not tied to the products of the American company “Bowed Apple”. Some users, especially “new”, who do not find the dawn of this technology, call the podcast absolutely any record on the Internet, which has the appearance of a media file (possibly except music). They probably are not so wrong, as it seems. After all, what is the difference between “podcast” and “not podcast”? It’s even difficult to determine it at once. Probably, it can be defined as “Internet broadcasting in the form of separate files” in order to distinguish from radio or television with its continuous shaft of information.
What is podcast
The most curious thing is that something very similar to podcast existed in Russia of the time of the Soviet Union. In the 1980s in Rostov-on-Don, a project on tape recorders was published not even cassettes, but also on the Bobbins “Illusion of Independent Radio”. And he spread by “ordinary” mail, by paid subscription, was quite popular in narrow circles. By the end of its existence, the geography of the project covered almost all of Russia, but it did not really. And for technical reasons (record so many!), and because there was no way to distribute advertising through official channels. And it was more a creative project than a commercial.